What are the basic steps from “taking drone fotos” via “generating a point cloud” to the final orthofoto. Which step follows which step exactly? Maybe there is a flowchart somewhere that gives a nice overview?

Where are the single steps explained in more detail? Maybe there is some book/Literature that gives a good overview?

I was trying to get information on this in the docs (http://docs.opendronemap.org/) and on github but without much success. I want to understand the concepts to be able to use ODM efficiently and maybe to participate in its development. I am especially interested in the generation of multiband-Orthofotos from Sequoia-Imagery (It looks like that’s still a problem: https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap/issues/190).

If you are looking to contribute to the project, I’d recommend to focus on one single step at a time. It can be overwhelming to become proficient with all the steps all at once.

The multiband support for sequoia looks very interesting! I think this would be one of the first steps of the pipeline (right after Images metadata extraction ). We welcome contributions, so if you have other questions, feel free to ask!